Disaster by design: the Aral Sea and its lessons for sustainability

Section one : the multiple disasters of the Aral Sea / Michael R. Edelstein -- An overview of the Aral Sea disaster / Abror Gadaev, Zikrilla Yasakov -- Going with the flow : economic impacts from the overuse of irrigation / Ilkhomjon Niyazov, Farhod Ahrorov, with Astrid Cerny, Michael R. Edelstein -...

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Zusammenfassung:Section one : the multiple disasters of the Aral Sea / Michael R. Edelstein -- An overview of the Aral Sea disaster / Abror Gadaev, Zikrilla Yasakov -- Going with the flow : economic impacts from the overuse of irrigation / Ilkhomjon Niyazov, Farhod Ahrorov, with Astrid Cerny, Michael R. Edelstein -- Pollution and salinization : compounding the Aral Sea disaster / Farhod Ahrorov, Olim Murtazaev, Bahtiyor Abdullaev -- Death and rebirth island : secrets in the U.S.S.R.'s culture of contamination / Michael R. Edelstein -- Potential climate and hydrological changes in the Aral Sea Region / James R. Miller, Imtiaz Rangwala, Debjani Ghatak -- The significance of being downstream : Uzbek concerns over the Rogun Dam / Murad Askarov -- Section two : the Aral disaster in historical perspective / Michael R. Edelstein -- A last movement for a lost sea / Yusup S. Kamalov -- Aral sea analogs in the American west / Howard Horowitz -- Disaster by design : the multiple caused catastrophes of the Aral Sea / Michael R. Edelstein -- Section three : cotton, cotton everywhere, but not a drop to drink : agriculture as the villain / Astrid Cerny, Michael R. Edelstein -- What went wrong : the case of un-ecological agriculture / Michael Wilson -- The nonarable Aral : loss of productivity in Uzbek agriculture / Farhod Ahrorov, Ilkhomjon Niyazov -- Cotton in our ears : water, agriculture, and climatic change in the post Aral context / Shavkat Hasanov ... [et al.] -- Water footprints : integrated water resource management to the rescue in the Aral Sea Basin / Inna Rudenko ... [et al.] -- Section four : adapting to catastrophe : cascading social impacts of the Aral Sea disaster / Michael R. Edelstein -- The tragedy of the Aral : counting on cotton, a region loses its people / Astrid Cerny -- Reflections on growing up in the Karakalpakstan Region / Aziz Murtazaev -- An unhealthy place to live : prioritizing public health and addressing environmental contamination in Karakalpakstan / Ramona Lall -- A physician's observations of Karakalpak health / Rakhmon U. Arzikulov, Laylo L. Almatova, Saodat Safarova -- Ecological change in the Aral Region : adaptations by the spoonbill and black-crowned night heron / Mukhtor Turaev -- Environmental change as a threat to the Khorezm heritage / Gavkhar Salaevna Durdieva -- Whose disaster is it anyway? : romancing the world heritage status in Uzbekistan / Flavia Alaya -- Section five : designing solutions : social, ecological and technological approaches / Michael R. Edelstein -- New thinking and new approaches : a bioregional response to the lost Aral Sea / Yusup S. Kamalov -- Renewable social energy : Mahalla / Lola Gulyamova -- Clearing the pipes : providing potable water through well restoration / Abror Gadaev, Gulmira Boboeva --
Beschreibung:Online-Ressource (xlii, 463 p.)
ISBN:9781781903766